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The defence of the nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of the matter…
The defence of the nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of the matter of their nonconformity against Mr. J. Cheney's answer called The conforming nonconformist, and The nonconforming conformist : to which is added the second part in answer to Mr. Cheney's Five undertakings / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Benjamin Alsop, 1680
A DEFENCE OF THE NON-CONFORMIST'S Plea for Peace, AGAINST Mr. J. CH… › Chapter 14
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CHAP. XIV.
§ 1. What you say of the whole substance of Confirmation referred to the Parish Pastor, the Ceremony only reserved to the Bishop, is all without Book, and a mere mistake, as ⟨p. 24⟩the Bishops will soon tell you, and common experience. Had you heard what the Bishops at Worcester. House before the King and Lords said against inserting into the King's Declaration of Ecclesiastical Affairs, that one word [Consent] viz. the Minister's Consent to the confirming of those of his Flock, and how it after came in; you would not have talked at this rate of our Consent.
§ 1. WHat you say of the whole substance of Confirmation referred to the Parish Pastor, the Ceremony only reserved to the Bishop, is all without Book, and a meer mistake, as ⟨p. 24⟩the Bishops will soon tell you, and common experience. Had you heard what the Bishops at Worcester. House before the King and Lords said against inserting into the King's Declaration of Ecclesiastical Affairs, that one word [Consent] viz. the Minister's Consent to the confirming of those of his Flock, and how it after came in; you would not have talkt at this rate of our Consent.